“Cleverly pared-down take on Korngold’s creepily compelling fable”

“Longborough Festival Opera’s new staging of this 1920 opera-noir deserves to have a long future life”

Telegraph ★★★★

 

“This is an important event, and a big feather in Longborough’s already well-feathered cap.”

“The direction is crisp and to the point”

“Carmen Jakobi’s profoundly sensitive production”

Arts Desk ★★★★★

 

“Director Carmen Jakobi has a great sympathy for and understanding of the implications of the tale and its style”

"a privilege to hear this work so convincingly presented"

Plays to See ★★★★★

 

“Carmen Jakobi’s production is deceptively simple and exceptionally effective”

"The psychology of grief compellingly explored"

Bachtrack ★★★★

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“Carmen Jakobi has produced a strong staging, focused on the drama’s essential conflicts”

"magnificently done – and comes straight from the heart"

i News ★★★★★

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“a staging that was well thought out and visually stunning...Jakobi focused on working with the singer-actors, building the characters from dozens of simple and thus even more telling gestures”

Dorota Kozińska, atorod.pl

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"a wholly original hit, in the redoubtable Carmen Jakobi's shivering and spectacular – and stunningly staged and sung – production...You could read much of the pained story just from Jakobi's lustrous staging, and from her principals' expressions"
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